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<p>[QUOTE="Dafydd, post: 8189142, member: 86815"]I have to say I have blind faith when ordering from overseas, most people are honest and wouldn't last in business long with a reputation for unshipped packages.</p><p>My worst experience, reported in another thread, was UPS messing up customs and the Polish seller using an invoice for Zlotys which UPS converted to Sterling and then charged fees that were in excess of the two coins. </p><p>Eventually UPS delivered but the coins were in a depot 40 miles from my house for nearly 10 months.</p><p>The best ever experience was something shipped from New York on a Friday that arrived on Monday! This was USPS priority teamed with Royal Mail. I checked on the Monday afternoon to see if the package had been shipped and unbelievably the status read "delivered". I assumed it was a scam until I found the packet behind my front door.</p><p>The only time I ever lost anything was a consignment of medals send from an auction house in Arizona to a friend in Portland, Oregon that I was to collect later in the year as the auction house doesn't ship offshore. The medals never arrived, I had no service or sympathy from the auction house and never used them again.</p><p>There is also an apparent disparity between some German Auction Houses, one states it could take 2 weeks to obtain an export license, and another ships immediately and if I pay $25 for Fedex, they arrive in 3 days. </p><p>I received a package recently from John Anthony recently by ordinary mail that arrived in 5 days. No complaints there!.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dafydd, post: 8189142, member: 86815"]I have to say I have blind faith when ordering from overseas, most people are honest and wouldn't last in business long with a reputation for unshipped packages. My worst experience, reported in another thread, was UPS messing up customs and the Polish seller using an invoice for Zlotys which UPS converted to Sterling and then charged fees that were in excess of the two coins. Eventually UPS delivered but the coins were in a depot 40 miles from my house for nearly 10 months. The best ever experience was something shipped from New York on a Friday that arrived on Monday! This was USPS priority teamed with Royal Mail. I checked on the Monday afternoon to see if the package had been shipped and unbelievably the status read "delivered". I assumed it was a scam until I found the packet behind my front door. The only time I ever lost anything was a consignment of medals send from an auction house in Arizona to a friend in Portland, Oregon that I was to collect later in the year as the auction house doesn't ship offshore. The medals never arrived, I had no service or sympathy from the auction house and never used them again. There is also an apparent disparity between some German Auction Houses, one states it could take 2 weeks to obtain an export license, and another ships immediately and if I pay $25 for Fedex, they arrive in 3 days. I received a package recently from John Anthony recently by ordinary mail that arrived in 5 days. No complaints there!.[/QUOTE]
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